The Rinzai Zen Community (http://www.rinzaizen.org) will conduct its annual summer sesshin in Germany, Thursday evening 8/29 through Sunday morning 9/1. The venue is the Kapuzinerhof in Laufen, a restored 17th century Capuchin monastery. Salzburg is a conveniently close airport.

This sesshin is geared toward beginners, and so is ideal for those who haven't attended a sesshin before. Participants stay on-site and must attend the entire practice period.

Nowadays there is much talk about the sublime and the profound, or conversely criticism of the Two Vehicles, belittling their authority. [Proponents of] the partial, the round, the exoteric and the esoteric schools contend with each other, yet they have not even accomplished the confirmation of the Two Vehicles, let alone that of the Bodhisattva Vehicle. And as for the One Buddha Vehicle, how could they conceive of it even in their dreams? What use to them are the partial, round, exoteric and esoteric teachings? - Torei